question about old Slr lens

i have a digital rebel xt and was just wondering, my unlce has all of these old lens that he used to shoot with a regular Slr camera, can anyone tell me if these lense will fit my camera? and yes they are canon lens. im very curious about this

i have a digital rebel xt and was just wondering, my unlce has all of these old lens that he used to shoot with a regular Slr camera, can anyone tell me if these lense will fit my camera? and yes they are canon lens. im very curious about this

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The fact that they're Canon doesn't really matter nowadays, what matters is whether or not they are autofocus EF type lenses.

If not, you can forget it.

If they are EF type autofocus lenses you're ok.

Canon changed their lens mount, making all their manual focus lenses totally incompatible with their modern cameras. Even the adapters cannot achieve infinity focus with them unless you get one with additional lens elements in it, which degrades the image quality severely.

i have a digital rebel xt and was just wondering, my unlce has all of these old lens that he used to shoot with a regular Slr camera, can anyone tell me if these lense will fit my camera? and yes they are canon lens. im very curious about this

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You may have heard that older manual focus SLR lenses can be used on new DSLRs. This is true if the brand is Nikon or Pentax. Canon changed their lens mount when they moved from manual to auto focus. Only the newer autofocus lenses will work on the DSLR. These are easy to identify because they have electronic contacts on the lens mount. The older ones were purly mechanical.

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